(CNN) - Car accidents are the number-one cause of death for teenagers. And 25 percent of all teen driving crashes are due to distracted driving.

Since April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month, events are being held all over the country to try and focus teens behind the wheel.

Bonny Spray knows first-hand, the dangers of distracted driving:

[2:06] “Six years ago on this date, my daughter was pronounced dead following a single-car accident from texting and driving.”

Spray and her 19-year-old daughter Amanda were trading text messages about a fight Amanda was having with her roommate.

[2:43] “The last text I got was, ‘I‘m not doing too well.’”

Spray now goes to high schools to share her daughter's story and talk about the dangers of distracted driving.

Outside John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California, teen volunteers get set to take the distracted driving challenge; an obstacle course that’s more about the distractions inside the car than those outside it.

CNN Radio News Day is an evening news program providing an informative, thoughtful and creative look at the day's events. It's posted Monday through Friday at 4:30 pm ET.

You don’t have to be at this blog to listen, we want you to take us with you! Click the download button in the SoundCloud player and put us on your smart phone or tablet and bring us with you in the car, on the train or while you’re working out.

(CNN) – Welcome to CNN Radio News Day.

The city of Boston this afternoon marked one week since the marathon bombings with a moment of silence throughout the city. Meanwhile, the surviving bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is facing federal charges that could allow the government to seek the death penalty against the 19-year-old. CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports:

"He is charged with using a weapon of mass destruction and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. Those are the two preliminary charges upon which he is being held."FULL POST

Editor's Note: Listen to the full story in our player above, and join the conversation in our comments section below.

Three years ago Peggy Casey found herself in a situation that's increasingly common in the United States. She needed to sort out elder care for her mother. So Casey went hunting for options. She found an assisted living home that she thought would do nicely.

[:46] "My idea was I'll pluck her out of this home that has all these problems and I'll put her down in this gorgeous place full of luxury and of course she didn't see it that way at all."

That's putting it mildly. Maguerite Stentz laughs at the memory:

[:57] " I would have hated it. I would have had my own little apartment upstairs and I'm not a people person. It would have been unbearable."